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Leicester College of Art - specimen pages from a diary for 1948
A page from a 1948 printing supplement showing the skill of students at the old Leicester College of...
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Uploaded on May 14, 2013
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Post Office Telephones - Rochdale & District local telephone directory, March 1959 - page 6
Page 6 from the 1959 Rochdale local telephone directory. All the Ashworths are here! ARR - AUS
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Uploaded on May 14, 2013
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Post Office Telephones - Rochdale & District local telephone directory, March 1959 - cover
There's something about old telephone directories - particularly when they're of your old home town...
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Uploaded on May 13, 2013
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Post Office Telephones - Rochdale & District local telephone directory, March 1959 - page 5
Page 5, the first alphabetic page of the 1959 Rochdale & District local telephone directory. A & P - ARR
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Uploaded on May 13, 2013
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"Oaks may fall ..." - sample set in Neuland typeface, designed by Rudolf Koch for Typefounders Klingspor, Offenbach am Main, c1934
Another of the typefaces designed by the prolific German calligrapher and typeface designer Rudolf...
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Uploaded on May 8, 2013
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LNER / British Railways carriage print - Temple Bar, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire by Claude Muncaster, RWA - 1947
For many years many British railway carriages were graced by a series of artworks that fitted under...
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Uploaded on May 8, 2013
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"The First Book ..." - sample set in Oxford typeface, designed by Rudolf Koch for Typefounders Klingspor, Offenbach am Main, c1934
A sample page issued by Klingsor in c1935 for the English market featuring a typeface by...
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Uploaded on May 6, 2013
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"So Dad, fill the engine with Shell" - lorry poster issued by Shell-Mex, c1934 - designed by J de Holden-Stone
One of the vast series of lorry bills - posters fixed to the side of Shell lorries and tankers -...
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Uploaded on May 6, 2013
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New York World's Fair, 1939 - The British Pavilion, front cover designed by Eric Ravilious
What a wonderful piece of whimsy this is by the marvellous Eric Ravilious! The design is of...
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Uploaded on May 5, 2013
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Zwicky Swiss Cotton - poster by Donald Brun, c1955
A famous Swiss product, Zwicky sewing cottons, by a famous Swiss poster designer and artist Donald...
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Uploaded on May 5, 2013
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Title page to "the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite", published by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1948 - engravings by Mark Severin
A fine title page to the 1948 Golden Cockerel Press edition of the Homeric hymn to...
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Uploaded on May 5, 2013
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LNER / British Railways carriage print - Boston, Lincolnshire by Freda Marston, ROI - 1947
For many years many British railway carriages were graced by a series of artworks that fitted under...
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Uploaded on May 5, 2013
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Victoria Coach Station, London - departures, May 2013
For various reasons the job, this week, took me to the roof of our office block at 172 Buckingham...
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British Industrial Plastics - Designers Diary No.9 - advert issued c1954
One of a series of adverts issued by BIP during the mid-1950s to show the possibilities of design...
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"See all - hear all. Say GEC Television and radio" - poster issued by the General Electric Company, c 1955
One of a series of adverts issued by the English GEC for their ranges of televisions and radios and...
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Uploaded on May 2, 2013
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Post Office Telephone Directory - South Wales East (inc. Cardiff, Newport & Monmouthshire) - September 1955
The cover of the 1955 South Wales East telephone directory (Section 21) showing the standard cover...
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Uploaded on Apr 30, 2013
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"De Zwarte Markt is anti-Nederlandische" - poster by Lewitt-Him, 1946
An immediate post-WW2 poster, designed by Lewitt-Him, and issued by the Dutch Government for use...
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Uploaded on Apr 30, 2013
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Street plan of Ashton-Under-Lyne, Droylesden and Daisy Nook, Lancashire, c1935
A recent, sad trip north (for a friend's funeral) saw me in Ashton-Under-Lyne and Daisy Nook for...
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